YOU ARE GOD, WAKE UP!!!!!

This was a great read. 10/10

So I'm god…

Why would I save a world I no longer have any stake in?

Upanishads

As the sun, who is the eye of the world,
Cannot be tainted by the defects in our eyes
Nor by the objects it looks on,
So the one Self, dwelling in all, cannot
Be tainted by the evils of the world.
For this Self transcends all!
(Katha 11.2.11)

They place us at home in a compassionate universe, where nothing is “other” than ourselves - and they urge us to treat that universe with reverence, for there is nothing in the world but God:

The Self is the sun shining in the sky,
The wind blowing in space; he is the fire
At the altar and in the home the guest;
He dwells in human beings, in gods, in truth,
And in the vast firmament; he is the fish
Born in water, the plant growing in the earth,
The river flowing down from the mountain.
For this Self is supreme!
(Katha 11.2.2)

The Isha Upanishad

’The Lord is enshrined in the hearts of all.
The Lord is the supreme Reality.
Rejoice in him through renunciation.
Covet nothing. All belongs to the Lord.
2 Thus working may you live a hundred years.
Thus alone will you work in real freedom.

Those who deny the Self are born again
Blind to the Self, enveloped in darkness,
Utterly devoid of love for the Lord.

The Self is one. Ever still, the Self is
Swifter than thought, swifter than the senses.
Though motionless, he outruns all pursuit.
Without the Self, never could life exist.

The Self seems to move, but is ever still.
He seems far away, but is ever near.
He is within all, and he transcends all.

Those who see all creatures in themselves
And themselves in all creatures know no fear.
Those who see all creatures in themselves
And themselves in all creatures know no grief.
How can the multiplicity of life
Delude the one who sees its unity?

The Self is everywhere.
Bright is the Self,
Indivisible, untouched by sin, wise,
Immanent and transcendent.
He it is Who holds the cosmos together.

Osho was an anti-traditional agent of chaos and didn't represent the legitimate Hindu tradition at all, which is exemplified by his open promotion and advocacy of hedonism, free-love and sex which the Hindu tradition and almost all of its philosophy condemn

Around 2000 B.C., scholars believe, groups of Indo-European-speaking peoples calling themselves arya,or noble, began to enter the Indian subcontinent through the Hindu Kush. There, in the Indus river valley, they found a civilization already a thousand years old, thriving and advanced in technology and trade. From the fusion of these two cultures, the Aryan and the Indus Valley, Indian civiliza­tion was born.The Aryans brought their gods and a religion based on ritual sacrifice, with lyrical, life-affirming hymns meant for incantation in an ancient form of Sanskrit. These hymns, dat­ing from perhaps 1500 B.C., reveal an intimate, almost mys­tical bond between worshipper and environment, a simulta­neous sense of awe and kinship with the spirit that dwells in all things. Even in translation they have a compelling beauty. They worship natural forces and the elemental powers of life: sun and wind, storm and rain, dawn and night, earth and heaven, fire and offering.These powers are the devas, gods and goddesses sometimes recognizable in other religions of Aryan origin. In the hymns they seem very near, present before us in the forms and forces of the natural world. Fire is Agni, worshipped as the actual fire on the hearth or altar and as the divine priest who carries offerings to the gods. The storm is Indra, leader of the gods and lord of war and thunder, who rides into battle on his swift chariot to fight the dragon-demon of the sky or the enemies of the Aryan hosts.

If mysticism can arise in any age, there is no reason to suppose that the Upanishads are a late flowering of Vedic thought. They may represent an independent tributary into the broad river of the Vedas. Some age-old elements of Hindu faith can be traced more easily to the pre-Aryan Indus Val­ley civilization than to Vedic ritual, and archaeologists have uncovered there a striking stone image which a Hindu villager today would identify without hesitation as Shiva, Lord of Yoga, seated in meditation, suggesting that the disciplines of mysticism might have been practiced in India before the Aryans arrived.

Veda (etymologically “sacred knowledge,” or wisdom) meansin the first instance these four Samhitas or collections of inspiredhymns directed to the gods of the Indo-Aryan pantheon and divin­ized aspects of the Vedic religious ideology, such as fire, as well assome hymns so elusive we can no longer tell what exactly they arecelebrating. A second meaning of the word includes three classes oftexts which were soon attached to, and preserved with, their respec­tive Samhitas. The first are the Brahmanas, lengthy descriptions ofthe Vedic rituals in a prose which is nearly that of classical Sanskrit,containing a vast amount of lore and narrative from innumerablefamily traditions. These texts were basically manuals for the priests (also brahmanas, “brahmins”) responsible for the increasingly com­plex family and community rites. Second is a smaller and more in­triguing group of texts known as Aranyakas or “forest manuals,”continuations of the Brahmanas but “dealing with the speculationsand spirituality of forest dwellers …, those who have renouncedthe world.”1 And third are the earliest Upanishads or “confiden­tial sessions.”2 The Upanishads thus consummate a line of develop­ment which begins with the official hymns of the extended familythat were recited at their public rituals and ends with utterances ofuniversal import that a remarkable class of forest sages had givento their intimate disciples. For this reason, and because they arehanded down at the end of the Vedic collections and are meant to belearned and recited last by Vedic students, the Upanishads are clas­sified as vedanta, “the end of the Vedas.”

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If can always choose the path of ascetic or religious renunciation/priest/etc, but even if you don't you can still work towards beneficial and just goals like raising a family and helping your country/people while understanding that everything is really just the Supreme Godhead and while remaining blissful and unattached to the fruits of actions, because you are just contributing to the overall harmony of the unreal universe happening in it and the mental well-being of the people still trapped in it who are not really separate from you but who still suffer the illusion of multiplicity and will until they themselves also individually realize the truth.

this exposed as dogma in 18 minutes. OP is hanging onto his gimel

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I'll think about it while I try to find a place to sleep so I don't drown or freeze to death.